confused by bindings

[Alex Martelli]

"Sam Falkner" <samf+usenet at frii.com> wrote in message
news:ii7itefot91.fsf at central.sun.com...
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> I might have thought this too, but look at the wonderful Borg recipe:
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66531
>
> Aren't they doing exactly what I was doing?
>     self.__dict__ = self.__shared_state
>
> As I mentioned before, I tried using the "borg pattern" for my test
> suite, and it didn't work either.  If anyone is curious, I can
> re-create the failure.

As Borg's author (thanks for the "wonderful" -- I hope you have
also given it a rating of 5/5...?-), I am indeed quite curious
about the failure.


Alex